On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound. The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to be read from/written to disk.
Actually, as a general rule, on a consumer machine, both the CPU and the disk spend most of their time waiting for user input to give them something to do. Disk waits are nothing compared to the eternity between the keystrokes of a fast typist, and that's if the user is neither away nor lost in thought.
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